On Wednesday, March 22, about 17, 000 AT&T employees walked off the job. The strike is due to ongoing negotiations between AT&T and the Communications Workers of America union who is representing landline workers in California and Nevada. According to a Facebook post by the union, the employees are angry about a "unilateral change in job requirements [for landline technicians]" without the union's agreement. AT&T said that the strike does not include employees in their wireless departments. They are currently engaged in conversations with CWA in order to end the strike as quickly as possible. Employees in California and Nevada have been working under an expired contract for nearly a year and the union has claimed that AT&T has refused to "bargain fairly." CWA is also upset that AT&T has recently cut thousands of landline technician and call center jobs. Despite the strike, AT&T has said it will still be able to continue serving its customers. Earlier in March, AT&T and a group of unionized workers in the southwest came to a separate agreement that included the promise of returning 3,000 jobs to the U.S. that have been outsourced to overseas employees.

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